How Should You Spend Time As A CEO/Founder?

Founder's Journal

Morning Brew

Careers, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Episode 62: Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) chats with Sam Corcos, co-founder and CEO of Levels, a health tech company focused on metabolic health using continuous glucose optimizer. In this episode, they break down how CEOs and founders should be spending their time, maximizing their productivity and ensuring they are spending their time wisely and efficiently. Send us an email and let us know what you think of the idea! [email protected] Links: An Exact Breakdown of How One CEO Spent His First Two Years of Company-Building Tim Ferriss Podcast w/ Sam Corcos Grow more (and stress less) with Brex: brex.com/foundersjournal #FoundersJournal #Startups #Entrepreneur Listen to Founder’s Journal here: https://link.chtbl.com/OV4W93_W Watch Founder’s Journal here: https://www.youtube.com/@FoundersJournal/ Subscribe to Morning Brew! Sign up for free today: https://bit.ly/morningbrewyt Follow The Brew! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/morningbrew/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/MorningBrew Tik Tok - https://www.tiktok.com/@morningbrew Follow Alex! Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everyone, welcome back to another episode of Founders Journal.
0:04.1	I'm Alex Lieberman, co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew.
0:08.4	Today we're answering a very simple question.
0:11.2	How should you spend your time as a CEO?
0:14.8	And to answer that question, I brought in possibly the most qualified person in the world.
0:19.9	Sam Corcos is the co-founder and CEO of levels, a health tech company focused on metabolic
0:25.6	health using continuous glucose monitors.
0:28.9	Sam is what I like to call a hyper optimizer.
0:32.4	He is obsessed with efficiency and he has gone to incredible lengths to spend his time well
0:37.4	as a CEO.
0:39.3	For four years straight he has tracked his time down to the 15 minute increment and he
0:43.7	also leverages executive assistance as a major unlock for him to delegate things that he
0:48.8	doesn't love doing or is not uniquely qualified to do.
0:52.2	He talks about his process for tracking time and delegation on Tim Ferriss's podcast
0:57.9	and during our conversation today we break down how he actually tracks his time,
1:02.6	how he spends his time as a CEO and how that has evolved since the early days of his business
1:08.3	and how you should think about spending your time as a co-founder or a CEO.
1:13.2	So let's hop into it.
1:15.2	Today's episode of Founders Journal is sponsored by Brex.
1:28.8	Brex is a financial stack created for founders by founders that helps startups optimize
1:34.3	their finances at every stage of growth.
1:37.1	So you've got that first investor check in hand by the way congrats but now you need
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